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    Document   : what_are_kungkhies
    Created on : 19-Dec-2011, 23:00:38
    Author     : clayton
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    <h2 class="center-title">What is a kungkhie?</h2>
    <p>To a Malaysian, a kungkhie might be a specially trained elephant that a mahout uses to train other elephants.</p>
    <p>However, in the context of kungkhies.com, a kungkhie is an educational route map that describes a course of instruction.  This involves carrying out a sequence of activities.  These activities are chosen to satisfy a set of intended learning outcomes associated with a particular topic.</p>
    <p>Educational technologists might call this a learning design.</p>
    <p>Kungkhies are different from conventional learning design in that the sequence of activities can be chosen by both teachers and learners.  These choices are published to kungkhie-base, the central kungkhies.com database, and the data is used to determine the most popular activity choices. Machine learning algorithms are also used to provide recommendations based on learner preferences.</p>
    <p>Teachers and learners involved in creating kungkhies might regard them as XML or JSON files, in which forms their definitions can be expressed.</p>
    <p>Finally, those interested in the theory of workflow might describe a kungkhie as a coloured Petri net constructed from two types of nodes representing states of knowledge (or competences) and activities.</p>
    <p>Ultimately, however, at the point of use, kungkhies are simple to create and simple to use for the purposes of both teaching and learning.</p>
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